A Macao license plate recognition system

Author

Wu, Cheokman ; On, Lei Chan ; Weng, Chan Hon ; Kuan, Tong Sio ; Ng, Kengchung

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. Technol., Macao Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipa, Macau

Volume

7

fYear

2005

fDate

18-21 Aug. 2005

Firstpage

4506

Abstract

A license plate recognition (LPR) system plays an important role in numerous applications, such as parking accounting systems, traffic law enforcement, road monitoring and security systems. This paper proposes an experimental license plate recognition system for Macao-style license plates. The system uses morphological operations and a projection searching algorithm for the extraction of license plates. The recognition result is obtained from a character recognition based on template matching. The proposed work in this paper is the first attempt towards Macao-style license plates.

Keywords

automated highways; character recognition; feature extraction; image matching; image morphing; image segmentation; traffic engineering computing; Macao license plate recognition system; Macao-style license plates; character recognition; character segmentation; license plate extraction; morphological operation; parking accounting systems; projection searching algorithm; road monitoring systems; road security systems; template matching; traffic law enforcement; Character recognition; Flowcharts; Image recognition; Image segmentation; Information technology; Law enforcement; Licenses; Monitoring; Morphological operations; Roads; Plate recognition; character segmentation; morphological operation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2005. Proceedings of 2005 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guangzhou, China

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9091-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMLC.2005.1527732

Filename

1527732